Abstract
This article deals with higher education in distance education and its teaching and learning methodologies in undergraduate nursing. The objective is to describe how distance education occurs and its relationships. The work uses the mixed method, in which the essence and the challenge is to understand this process facing education. A systematic and critical process that implies a combination of qualitative and quantitative elements as a possibility to expand information about teaching in a virtual environment. Given these needs aroused the interest of researching and pointing out the importance of this education through information gathering and bibliographic review, seeking to understand education in its qualities, without disregarding the respect of other voices, thus in fact come a communicative and understanding action of its importance for Universality and Equalimity Integrality in line with LDB 9394/96, BNCC and MEC decrees.